[patriciaruth]

The same can be said of alcohol and tobacco

So because alcohol and tobacco harm people and destroy lives, we should legalize MORE drugs that harm people and destroy lives?

You haven't thought that out very well.

Alcohol and tobacco were indigenous in the culture before we had an FDA. Neither of those drugs would even be considered for approval if they were submitted for review today.

[coloradan]

So because alcohol and tobacco harm people and destroy lives, we should legalize MORE drugs that harm people and destroy lives?

Inconsistent laws breed disrespect for all laws, so yes. Furthermore, we have tried prohibition twice, and both were spectacular failures. The first, the alcohol prohibition, was thankfully repealed. The second is the present drug prohibition, which is a spectacular failure by any metric. Money wasted, lives lost, rights eroded or destroyed, drug use, drug prices, drug availability ... they can't even keep drugs out of prisons.

You haven't thought that out very well.

If you support inconsistent laws, you are the one not thinking.

Alcohol and tobacco were indigenous in the culture before we had an FDA. Neither of those drugs would even be considered for approval if they were submitted for review today.

Marijuana was also indigenous and even widely used by this nation's founders before the FDA. Your point being ... ?

[PaxMacian]

"Alcohol and tobacco were indigenous in the culture before we had an FDA. "

The FDA is not GOD!

Gifted by God, this herb has been cultivated around the world since the very beginning of cultivation as the record shows. Hemp butter was a mainstay of Europe for centuries. It has been found in burial mounds of the first horsemen. It has been found in the hulls of rowing ships at the bottom of the mediterranean. It was grown by many of our Nation's Founding Fathers. The indigenous people of this land have a legend of the Hemp-barrer. But, indigenousness is not a requirement in a Free Republic for freedom of religion.

[MrLeRoy]

Neither of those drugs [alcohol and tobacco] would even be considered for approval if they were submitted for review today.

So what?